The Bassinet with camail attached is not a characteristic of this century, though isolated examples may perhaps be found.
The Tewkesbury figure is given by Stothard; an example further curious from the hauberk being sculptured as ordinary chain-mail, while the camail alone is of the banded work.
At the same moment Raoul sank with a gasp at his feet, a bolt driven to its socket through the links of the camail which guarded his neck.
Nigel was beaten down on to the crupper of his horse by a sweeping blow; but at the same instant Chandos' quick blade passed through the Frenchman's camail and pierced his throat.
This is called the camail period because by this time the custom of wearing the camail had become universal.
The head is covered with a conical basinet (without a face-piece), to which the camail of chain mail is fastened.
The sculptured effigy of the Black Prince on his tomb at Canterbury is a typical representation of a knight of the camail period.
Both he and the cross-bowman are wearing jazerine jackets, but the former has a camail and a chain mail jacket beneath it.
The basinet was made much more globular in form, and a piece of plate called the gorget or neck-piece took the place of the camail to connect the basinet with the body armour.
It shows a pointed and fluted basinet with the camail of "banded mail" fastened to it.
Knights gave up the use of the camail and jupon, and were clothed in complete armour.
A basinet, showing the loops by which the camail is fastened to it.
It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood!
At its end the knight is often locked in plates from head to foot, no chainwork showing save the camail edge under the helm and the fringe of the mail skirt or hawberk.
The chain camail has gone out of fashion, the basinet continuing itself with a chin and cheek plate which joins a gorget of plate covering the collar-bone, a movable viser shutting in the whole head with steel.
The desire for a better defence than a steel cap andcamail and a less cumbrous one than the great helm, in which the knight rode half stifled and half blind, brought in as a fighting headpiece the basinet with a movable viser.
The camail was still generally worn under the heaulme, which rested not only on the head but on the shoulders of the wearer, and was secured by a chain.
He wears the conical helmet with nasal and hauberk of mail, with camail or hood of mail, such as was generally worn, and the absence of which is worthy of remark in the warriors of the Apocaliptica.
Like his brother-in-arms, at Puig, he wears the camail and hauberk.
The earlier armets, like the beaked bascinet, had a camail attached by a row of staples (Fig.
In the first a plate shaped somewhat to the nose was attached to the part of the camailwhich covered the mouth.
The arm-holes became decorated in the later years of this style, but owing to the coveringcamail we have no knowledge of any decorations upon the neck.
As human knowledge is but the consolidated result of experience, so we may attribute the Camail and Jupon Period to the French wars of Edward III.
Calvert] With the advent of the camail and jupon we enter upon a period which presents a certain amount of uniformity, and is in marked contrast to the tentative styles which preceded it.
In all cases the camail covers a part of the cyclas.
British Museum, representing the Black Prince receiving a grant of Aquitaine from his father, shows the prince with his helmet and its depending camail doffed, but no gorget, however, is disclosed.
This weapon has been described where necessary in preceding chapters up to and including the Camail and Jupon Period, when the misericorde with its triangular blade was so much in evidence.
One of the peculiarities of the Camail and Jupon Period is the magnificent hip-belt, of far more elaborate workmanship and finish than in any preceding or following age.
The camail was now finally abolished after being in vogue in one fashion or another for over one hundred years.
Upon the shoulders laminated epaulières occur, the upper plates of which are habitually hidden by the camail and jupon, but were probably affixed to or depended from the gorget of plate before mentioned.
A feature of note was the loss of the camail throat-guard and the introduction of a light sheet-metal gorget.
The camail was, undoubtedly, an efficient safeguard, but it was extremely weighty and so caused much inconvenience to the wearer.
Laced to the helmet and falling over the shoulders was a plastron of camail which protected the throat and neck from violence.
The jupon was a garment which covered the body from the camail to just above the knees.
It originally had a camail hanging to a leather strap.
This mail, now called the camail or gorget, was laced to a series of staples along the edges of the bassinet and fell like a curtain on to the shoulders.
Vestiges of the camail are found on fourteenth century bassinets just as they are seen in the conical helmets from Nineveh and on the Trajan column.
In the little wooden statuette of St. George of Dijon, which is a most useful record of the armour of this period, we find that, in addition, the camail is fastened to the breast with aiguillettes.
In these brasses we find that the camail has become the Standard of Mail, or collarette, worn under the gorget of plate.
The earliest brasses which show the whole suit of plate without camail or jupon are those of one of the d'Eresby family at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, and of Sir John Wylcotes at Great Tew, Oxon.
In the preceding chapter we noticed the method of attaching the camail to the bascinet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
